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ENGLISH POETIC DIVICES

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UNIT-1

BEAUTIFUL INSIDE Poem Lines

Figure of

Rhyming

Rhyme

Speech

Words

Sceme

Appearance can be deceptive,

a

And to the superficial gaze

b

The outside looks dull and grey

Alliterration

gaze – ways

Plain looking in many ways,

b

Yet, when a crack causes

(crack – causes)

Water to seep slowly through,

(seep – slowly)

A

c a

through – view

can split to reveal

b c

A dazzling sight to view!

(split – sight)

b

Piles of purple crystals

(piles – purple)

a

Sparkling in the light,

b

Such wonderful inner beauty

c

Now apparent for our delight! Have you noticed how some people, May seem plain

(people – plain )

b (take – time)

would we see?

Perhaps a beautiful heart

b a

plain can be?

Yet, if we take time to peer deeper, Then, what

light – delight

c be – see

(What – would – we)

b a

We never thought was there,

b

Where an

c

Is waiting its time to share?

there – share b

Yes, a warm glowing inner beauty

(beauty – before)

a

Will emerge before your eyes,

(emerge – eyes)

b

A newly discovered

c

For you to cherish, and to prize!

- Paul Holmes

eyes – prize

b

UNIT-2

PIANO Poem Lines

Figure of Speech

Softly in the dusk,

Rhyming

Rhyme

Words

Sceme

Alliterration

a women is singing to me;

(softly – singing)

Taking me back down the

me – see

a

(sitting – strings)

vista of years, till l see

a

A child sitting under the piano, in the

of the

strings

And pressing the small, poised feet

strings – sings (pressing – poised)

of a mother who smiles as she sings. Inspite of myself, the insidious

b b

(small – smiles) (she – sings)

mastery of song

(myself – mastery)

song – belong

a

Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeos to belong

(betrays– belong - back)

To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside

(old–outside)

a outside – guide

(parlour–piano)

b

And hymns in the cosy parlour, the

b

So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour

clamour – glamour a

With the great black piano

(great– glamour)

appassionato. The glamour

a

Of childish days is upon me,

(me – manhood)

my manhood is cast Down in the I

cast – past

b

, for the past.

- D.H.Lawrence

b

UNIT-3

MANLINESS Poem Lines

Figure of Speech

Rhyming

Rhyme

Words

Sceme

Scheme

(An extract from poem ‘if’) If you can dream and not Anaohora – if repeated first 3 lines make dreams your master; Alliteration master – disaster If you can think and not make (master – make) thoughts your aim; (think – thoughts)

a b

If you can meet with a

And treat t

t

just the same; If you can force your heart, and nerve, and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone; And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the will which says to them, “Hold on”. If you can fill the With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Your is the eath and everything that’s in it, And what is more, you’ll be a man, my son.

(treat – those - two)

b sinew – you

Assanance (after – are)

a b

gone – hold on a b minute – in it

a

run – sun

b

(sixty –seconds)

Assanance (earth –everything)

a

(more – man - my)

- Rudyard Kipling

b

UNIT-4

GOING FOR WATER Poem Lines

Figure of

Rhyming

Rhyme

Speech

Words

Sceme

The well was dry beside the door,

Alliteration

a

And so we went with pail and can

(dry – door)

Across the fields behind the house

(we – went)

c

To seek the brook if still it ran;

(seek – still)

b

can –ran

Not loth to have excuse to go,

b

a

Because the autumn eve was fair

fair – there

b

(Though chill), because the fields were ours,

c

And by the brook our woods were there.

b

We ran as if

a

meet the moon

That slowly dawned behind the trees,

(meet – moon)

The barren boughs without the leaves,

(barren – boughs)

b

Without the birds, without the breeze.

(birds – breeze)

b

But once within the wood, we paused

(within – wood - we)

a

that hid us from the moon, Ready to run to hiding new With laughter when s

trees – leaves – breeze

moon-soon (she – soon)

b

b c

found us soon.

b

Each laid on other a staying hand

Assanance

a

To listen ere we dared to look,

(listen – look)

And in the hush we joined to make

(heard – heard)

c

We heard, we knew we heard the brook.

(we – we - we)

b

look – brook

Anote as from a single place, A slender

a

fall that made

made – blade

Now drops that floated in the pool , and now a

b

.

-Robert Frost

b c b

UNIT-5

THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN Poem Lines

Figure of

Rhyming

Rhyme

Speech

Words

Sceme

“For oh,” say the children,” we are weary,

Alliteration

And we cannot run or leap.

(we – weary)

wearly – merely

b

If we cared for any meadows, it were merely

(meadows – merely)

leap – sleep

c

a

To drop down in them and sleep.

b

Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping---

(sorely– stooping)

We fall upon our faces, trying to go;

(fall – faces)

stooping – drooping

b

And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look

a

a go – snow

.

b

For, all day, we drag our burden tiring,

a

Through the

b

, underground----

Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron

(we – wheels)

In the factories, round and round.

(round – round)

For, all day, the wheels are

, turning,---

c underground – round

b

turning – burning

a

Their wind comes in our faces,---

b

Till our hearts turn,--- our head, with pulses burning, (hearts – head)

faces – places

a

And the walls turn in their places---

(long – light)

Turns the sky in the high window blank and

---

reeling–ceiling

a

Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall---

Anaphora

wall –all

b

Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling---

(crawl – ceiling)

a

All are turning, all the day, and we with all,---

(dropppeth – down)

b

b

And, all day the the iron wheels are droning;

a

And sometimes we could pray,

b

‘

’(breaking out ina mad moaning) ! Be silent for to-day! - Elezabeth

Barret Browning

droning – moaning

a

pray – day

b

UNIT-6

MIGRANT BIRD Poem Lines

Figure of

Rhyming

Speech

The globe’s my world. The

Words

kin – begin – din

Rhyme Sceme

a

I care not were the skies begin;

Alliteration

a

I spread my wings through all the din;

(fears,fright,

a

Through fears and flight i fly my flight.

fly,flight)

b

No walls for me, no

gaes – states

,

a

No flags, no machine guns that blast

b

Citizens of those border states-

a

Brothers of her brother’s sons.

c

No maps, no boundaries to block

(boundaries – block)

a

My sojourn into unknown lands.

(spawn, splash, spills)

b

I spawn and s

in distant spills,

I breed my brood where’r i will.

c (breed– brood)

d

I won’t look down. No i will not.

a

With speed of wings l hasten past

b

And close my eyes against the sun

(dream –dreams)

To dream my dreams and make them last

(my – make)

- Famida Y.Baheer

c past – last

b

UNIT-7

SHILPI Poem Lines

Figure of Speech

Steady throb Then staccato rhythm to oblivious ears The tempo is fickleNow synchronized, now not, m m Now sure, now steeped in thought. Bleary eyes, Sinews taut yet steady. Decades of practice Heirlooms of rich traditions In stark evidence The knocking softens, fades, To a mild judicious tap. takes form Rugged lines melt, Sharp edges merge Into smooth well moulded curves He steps back, surveys with Close scrutiny, then sharp critical glare The days of toil, Hammer and chisel laid asideOnly bloodshot eyes betray Deep pride, then reverence, Lo!

Alliteration

(mirror– moods)

(sinew – steady)

(merge – moulded)

(steps – surveys) (scrutiny – sharp) (close– critical) (bloodshot – betray)